Date:         Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:03:57 -0500
Reply-To:     Stephen Steele <steeles@HORIZONVIEW.NET>
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From:         Stephen Steele <steeles@HORIZONVIEW.NET>
Subject:      Re: Snow white nightmare/iMac/CV jointitis
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Coyote wrote:
> I remember correctly.  As a Mac user, I'm not affected ha ha ha.)


After a whole week of fighting/reinstalling/losing everything because of
some bug the fifteen year olds brought into the home computer,I was finally
able to start communicating in ethernetland again. Imagine my dismay when I
INADVERTENTLY opened the Snow White bug (thinking it was from either my
joker brother-in-law or my joker co-worker).
...Only to see, later, up the chain of backlogged v.listmail that it was a
virus.  Bummer!  Norton and N.A.V. aside, I wanted to pull out the remaining
hair in my head.
Talking to the resident Geek at work assured me that my scalp could remain
covered and I would have no need to go postal...my iMac reigns.

One Vanagon note. After a short caving trip in December, I noticed an
ominous, pronounced ,occasional knocking in the rear of my '91 (CV
jointitis).  The most noise came from loose bolts on the outer driver's side
hub. But the packing grease was realy hard and black; and two bolts had
snapped.  At 156+ K I figured it was time for new joints. My local VW gurus
recommended just turning the half shafts around (end for end) and repacking
the grease. Did that and after nearly 1K miles testing ...no problems.
Yahoo! These guys have been working on and driving VWs since the early
sixties. Johnny had a bus with over 500 K with the original CV joints and
original transmission fluid.
--
Stephen Steele
Chillicothe OH
'91 Caravelle  Hans   (158K)
'84 Westfalia  Fritz or Sunny?  (113K)